Art, Symbol & Imagination
Gulliver in the Small Sailing Boat
A small traveller holds a rope beneath a broad red sail as his boat tips over curling water. Immense fish move through the transparent lower half of the scene. De Bosschère uses the underwater scale and bold sail to make the voyage both comic and precarious.
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Jean de Bosschere. "Gulliver in the Small Sailing Boat" [editorial title]. In Gulliver's Travels into Lilliput and Brobdingnag, Jonathan Swift; illustrated by Jean de Bosschère. Lilliput and Brobdingnag voyages; illustrated by Jean de Bosschère; Dodd, Mead and William Heinemann, undated title., undated edition, Dodd, Mead & Company; William Heinemann. Source scan leaf 117. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0262-0107
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Gulliver's Travels into Lilliput and BrobdingnagJonathan Swift; illustrated by Jean de BosschèreUndated editionMore from this book
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Jean de Bosschere. Gulliver in the Small Sailing Boat. Gulliver's Travels into Lilliput and Brobdingnag. Scan leaf 117. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0262-0107